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School age lessons
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For aged five years and over, children progress through the levels of achievement working towards the end goal of performing five water safety skills continuously.
Our Swimsmart programme is available at Graham Condon, Jellie Park, Pioneer, Taiora QEII and Te Pou Toetoe Linwood Pool.
Lessons are 25-minutes long and run during school terms.
- Monday to Friday from 3.30pm
- Saturday and Sunday mornings from 8am.
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Prices
Individual lesson *$27.00 per week for 15-minute sessionsShared lesson *$18.30 per week for 15-minute sessions*25% discount available only for Community Services, Secondary Student, KiwiAble and Hāpai access card holders.
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Step by step information on how to make a Swimsmart booking can be found on our Frequently Asked Questions page.
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Classes
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Jellyfish
For the non-confident beginner who has had little or no aquatic programme experience. The classes focus on safe entries and exits, blowing bubbles and submerging in water and floating in the water with assistance.
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Flounders
This class is designed to work on floating and propulsion skills. This is the right class if your child can float on front and back relaxed with assistance, blow bubbles and can go underwater and retrieve objects from the bottom of the pool.
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Stingrays
This class is designed to teach the basics of freestyle, backstroke and water safety skills. This is the right class if your child can float on their front and back, kick on their front and back with a board.
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Sharks
A class that introduces breathing techniques, survival backstroke and works on increasing water safety knowledge. This is the right class if your child can swim with confident freestyle arms and swim backstroke independently.
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Tiger Sharks
This class is designed to consolidate breathing skills with freestyle and backstroke and water safety survival skills including using a lifejacket. This is the right class if your child can swim 10m freestyle with breathing and swim 10m backstroke.
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Barracudas
A class designed to increase swimming distance in freestyle and backstroke, introduce breaststroke arms and a 50m survival swim. At the beginning of this class, your child should be able to breathe with their freestyle 15m, backstroke 15m and demonstrate propulsion through the water using a sculling action.
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Marlins
Designed to consolidate techniques of freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke while combining water safety skills learned in earlier levels to be able to perform a sequence of 5 water safety skills continuously. This is the right class if your child can swim 25m freestyle with bilateral breathing, swim 25m backstroke and swim breaststroke.
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Junior Learners
A great opportunity for children aged nine to 14 years who have never learned to swim. Designed to build confidence and water safety skills for the older swimmer within a small group, starting with floating and moving onto freestyle and backstroke techniques.
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Timetable
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